Professor Annette M. Kim’s research studies the processes of major institutional change, particularly the reconstruction of property rights and planning paradigms in rapidly urbanizing cities. Currently, she directs the research group SLAB which is developing methods of spatial ethnography and critical cartography as a way to re-conceptualize urban space and find more inclusive and humane ways to design and govern the 21st century city. Professor Kim received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in City and Regional Planning as well as a concurrent M.A. in Visual Studies; a masters in public policy from Harvard University; and a B.A. in Architecture and Studio Art from Wellesley College. Professionally, she has been an architect of affordable housing, a construction project manager, and jury member of international urban design competitions. She has also served as a consultant to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, the World Bank, African and Asian governments, as well as community-based NGOs.

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China's scale of urbanization is unprecedented along many dimensions: land area, square meters constructed, population. Also well known are some of its spatial patterns: the astounding rate of land conversions in the urban villages on the periphery of Chinese cities as well as the redevelopment of land in the city center from hutongs to skyscrapers. But, less well studied are the millions of people living underground. For example, of Beijing's 20 million people, there are an estimated 2 million people living in bomb shelters and basements because it is the best space they can afford. Dr. Kim presents preliminary findings of her research about Beijing's elaborate underground housing market. Fieldwork interviews indicate that for this group of urban poor and recent migrants, the airless and cramped housing is preferable to the periphery for certain livelihood strategies and demographics. A socio-spatial order appears to be forming in which certain kinds of employment are associated with those living underground versus those living on the periphery. Having collected approximately a thousand rental ads for underground housing and geo-coded their location, she runs a hedonic price model to find the value of vertical urbanism and re-conceptualizes the subterranean city with alternative mapping.

China Urban Development Discussion Series in Spring 2013 is cosponsored by: Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Graduate Student Life Grants at MIT. For more information, please visit our website. Our seminars are free and open to the public.

Dr. Jinhua Zhao is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. Focusing on urban transportation and China's urbanization, Jinhua studies the interaction between policy making by the government and behavioural response from the public. Jinhua is returning to MIT (MCP and MST'04, PhD'09) this fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

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Extraordinary growth calls for extraordinary measures. Chinese cities offer many such examples in managing their automobiles: from restricting half of Beijing's vehicles from being used during the Olympics to charging over USD10,000 to register a Shanghai car license through bidding. Boldness in both infrastructure development and policy design seems commonplace in China's urban transportation arena. This talk, however, will present some of the subtleties in these bold designs using Shanghai license auction policy and Beijing's license lottery policy as a case. Subtleties exist in public attitude towards government policies, in policy details including pricing mechanism and purposeful policy leakage, and in the contrasting equity and efficiency orientations (superficial fairness in Beijing's lottery vs. efficiency-orientation of Shanghai's auction). Governments, at least in some cities, are more skillful in synergizing planning and market mechanisms and they do gauge the public and become more amenable though still sensitive. Policy making and public response are increasingly two-way interactive rather than one-way command and control.

China Urban Development Discussion Series in Spring 2013 is cosponsored by: Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Graduate Student Life Grants at MIT.

The lecture will be about the urban and architectural outcome of the modern project in Venezuela and its consequences for the contemporary city of Caracas. As an academic research it deals with issues such as the landscape of the city, the notion of public space in a modern urban structure as well as the role of infrastructure for the production of such places. It also looks at the historic centres as opportunities for urban reconstruction as well as the neigborhood condition of both the traditional and the informal city. The periphery of cities are to be understood as new marginal areas in contrast with the opportunities for underutilized land in the metropolitan region. The role of institutional architecture for the consolidation of a civic condition as well as the exploration of new housing or residential types are critical challenges in the actual state of the city. A series of architectural and urban projects will be presented in order to establish the relationship between those themes from an academic research and the professional practice in a city and a country of particular political, social, economic and cultural circumstances.

Franco Micucci

Franco Micucci is an architect who graduated in 1989 from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela and got his Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1992 where he received the Urban Design Thesis Prize. He has been a Professor of Architecture since 1993 at Universidad Simon Bolivar where is currently the coordinator of the architecture program since 2009. He has also taught at Universidad Central de Venezuela and in the Master of Urban Design at Unversidad Metropolitana, a joint program with Harvard University in Venezuela. He has had academic experiences in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Chile and Spain. His professional practice at MA+, Micucci arquitectos asociados, is based in Caracas and has developed a wide variety of projects for several venezuelan cities in collaboration with a young generation of architects that share a vision for the city an its architecture. Micucci has won the National Award at the Bienal de Arquitectura de Caracas in 2000 and recgnitions on several national and international competitions of architecture and urban design. His work has been published on several magazines and books in Venezuela and some other countries of Latin America. His academic research about the contemporary city and the tradition of modern architecture in Caracas is focused on an understanding of the city from the 20th century and its results. It is also an exploration about new ways to produce architecture with a proper response to strong and difficult political, economic, social and cultural issues of the venezuelan and latin american context.

Blindspots

A presentation of a series of independent projects on the intersections of race, architecture and the city, Blind Spots represent spaces that may not be observed under certain circumstances.

As a group, the projects explore the possibilities of descriptive terms and forms in architecture by seeking to materialize the immaterial while moving between the present and a past that has shaped it. Produced within the framework of an architecture practice, the independent projects are both blind spots and influencers of production.

Yolande Daniels

Principal/Co-founder, Studio SUMO

Yolande Daniels received architecture degrees from Columbia University and City College, CUNY. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, received a travel grant from the NY chapter of the American Institute of Architects and fellowships at the Mac Dowell Colony and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney American Museum of Art where she was a Helena Rubinstein fellow in Critical Studies. She has taught architecture at various universities including the Graduate Schools of Architecture at Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also a design principal of studioSUMO an architecture office founded in 1995 that is located in New York with projects in the United States, Japan and Brazil. studioSUMO has been the recipient of various awards including: Emerging Voices, Design Vanguard and Young Architects Forum, as well as, the recipient of grants such as New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts.

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Yolande Daniels: Blindspots
MIT Architecture Spring 2012 Lecture Series Aaron Naparstek: No Accident--Rethinking Motor Vehicle Violence
Aaron NaparstekStreetsblog.org founder and MIT DUSP Visiting ScholarIf you ever want to kill someone New York or just about any other American city, use a car as your weapon. As long as you are sober, licensed and do not flee the scene of what will reflexively be described as an "accident," it is virtually guaranteed that you will get away with murder. Around the world, 1.3 million people die in road traffic crashes and 20 to 50 million more are injured each year. This is a massive global health crisis that, for the most part, we ignore. Join DUSP Visiting Scholar Aaron Naparstek, founder of http://streetsblog.org, for a discussion on emerging, new perspectives on motor vehicle violence and the critical role that urban planners and designers can play in solving the problem.]]>
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Aaron Naparstek: No Accident--Rethinking Motor Vehicle Violence
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Gabe Klein: Chicago Forward: Toward a User-Friendly CityWhat happens when a tech-minded entrepreneur is unexpectedly chosen to lead a big city government bureaucracy? Gabe Klein was an unconventional pick to head the District of Columbia's Department of Transportation when he was hired back in 2008, by then-mayor Adrian Fenty. He'd been a Zipcar executive. He helped found a local boutique food-truck company. He grew up in a Virginia ashram called Yogaville. But he had never worked in government. Over the next 23 months Klein implemented a program of transformative innovation, rapidly rolling out bike-sharing, new bike lanes, streetcar plans and next-generation parking infrastructure. Now Klein is a year-and-a-half into his second unexpected job in government, as the head of Chicago's Department of Transportation under Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Join MIT Visiting Scholar Aaron Naparstek in conversation with one of America's most visionary and inspiring new urban leaders.]]>
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Gabe Klein: Chicago Forward: Toward a User-Friendly City
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Antón García-Abril: Think, Feel, Do.

Professor Garcia-Abril will discuss his core 3 studio group evolution, and how this pedagogie is complete related to how they do practice architecture in ensamble studio, showing their two built houses, as case studies, as an open house lecture.

The work of ENSAMBLE STUDIO belongs to two realities, opposite and complementary, that trace a nonlinear discourse through his work.

The world of nature in which the specific conditions of the territory including, besides the physical conditions of the site, the cultural, historical, artistic conditions. What is given by nature and by the site.

These structures are dense, heavy and linked to the local.

The world of the laboratory, in which there are no prerequisites, besides the ones marked by reality. The creation, the synthesis and engineering create an architecture that transcends the site.

These structures are tense, light, and linked to the global. The projects fall between these two extremes, creating a balance between them, creating a sincere and consistent body of work.

MANIFESTO

1. We think with our hands, we experience. We control the processes better than the results. Because finding the logic in the development makes it harder to be wrong.

2. We go to the origin of the processes, to the raw materials, we try to arrive to the essence of the elements and construction systems. And this scientific understanding enables a extreme freedom to operate outside the preconceived processes. We use industry at the service of architecture but not vice versa.

3. We conceive the spaces, design the construction accurately, play with the scale of the building elements to affect the scale of space; and the final form is simply the result of following a clear strategy.

4. We move easily in the contradiction. We design the shadow to obtain spaces of light and we build with heavy elements to obtain light and transparent spaces. We commute from stressed structures to dense structures, from the small scale of the house to the bigger scale of the city, from reordered nature to prefabricated systems.

5. We do not ignore history, we have studied it and we reread it with every project. But we use actual technology and we face the problems of our present times.

6. The structure is the architecture, which is not only entrusted with the important task of dealing with gravity, but also traces the space, frames the landscape, orders the program, expresses; and so, defines the architecture. Without dressings or disguise, with constructive honesty.

7. And above all, we do. And if we make mistakes, we learn. But the perseverance in doing keeps us alive. If we do not have work, we invent it.

Antón García-Abril

MIT Professor

Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect, full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and he is currently developing a second doctoral thesis about “Stressed Mass” at the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. He has been associate professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) for a decade, invited professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in 2010 and Cornell University in 2008, and visiting critic and lecturer in different universities and institutions in America and Europe, being the most recent ones the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf, AA London, Instituto Cervantes Chicago, Bienne Forum de l’Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio, Bauhaus University Weimar, the ETH Zürich, Princeton University, Harbin Institute of Technology China, ZA 2010 Congress, Johannesburgo, Sudafric, Accademia d’Architettura of Mendrisio, or the College of Architects of Ecuador in Quito. In 2000 he establishes ENSAMBLE STUDIO leading, together with his partner Débora Mesa, a cross-functional team with a solid research background on the lookout for new approaches to architectonical space, building technologies and urban strategies. Their built projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space. The Music Studies Center and the SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela, the Martemar House in Malaga, the Hemeroscopium House in Madrid, The Truffle in Costa da Morte (Spain) and more recently the Reader’s House in Madrid and the Cervantes Theater in Mexico City have been internationally published. Their office has been awarded with important prizes like The Rice Design Alliance Prize to emerging architects in 2009 or the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Prize in 2005, and was selected by SANAA to participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010. This year Antón has been elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his services to international architecture, and has been curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presenting “Spainlab”. Beside his professional career, he keeps a strong involvement with the academic community through teaching and research. He co-founded with Débora Mesa the Positive City Foundation in 2009, with the aim of forwarding their views on urban development, and they are in the process of setting up a research laboratory at MIT, the POPLab (Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory).

Born in 1957. Entered Ryohin Keikaku in 1993 after working for Seiyu Stores, presently Seiyu GK. Contributed to the growth of Ryohin Keikaku by driving the Household division, which is a main pillar of its sales, as General Manager of Household division in Merchandising for long time. Later assigned as Managing Director; General Manager of Sales Headquarters, Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd and undertook structural reforms of the company with Mr. Matsui, current chairman. Assigned as President and Representative Director in February 2008 and remained up to the present. Since his career at Seiyu, he has been involved in “MUJI” in the fields of Sales and Merchandising. Since August 2006, assigned as Chairman of IDEE Co., Ltd. and later assigned as President and Representative Director of IDEE in September 2009. Is working on improving the corporate value of whole Ryohin Keikaku group companies.

Mr. Hartmut Esslinger

"Featured on the cover of Business Week in December 1990 with the caption, “How Hartmut Esslinger is shaking up the world of industrial design,” Hartmut Esslinger is one of the best known and respected designers in the world. In 1969, Esslinger founded frog design in his native Germany and sparked a design revolution through his unique emotional and cultural style. His work has defined the modern consumer aesthetic with such revolutionary products as Sony's original Trinitron television, the Apple Macintosh, and Lufthansa’s brand and fleet image. In 1994, Esslinger's frog brought its product design prowess to the virtual world and has developed digital works for clients including Adidas, Microsoft, and SAP. Other world-class clients include Acer, Acura/Honda, AT&T and its Labs, CitiCorp, Discovery Channel, Disney, IBM, Kaltenbach & Voigt, Karstadt, Kodak, Louis Vuitton, Motorola, NEC, Packard Bell, Rosenthal, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Swatch, Virgin Records, Yamaha and Zeiss— to name only a few.

Hartmut Esslinger is also Founding Professor of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany, has an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Parson School of Design, University of New York, and is an Honorary Member of the Design Academy of Mexico. In 1992 Hartmut Esslinger received the Raymond Loewy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Concurrent to the award was the release of the book “Hartmut Esslinger and frogdesign” (Steidl Verlag, Goettingen, 1992) and an exhibit about frog at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany. Esslinger's work has been lauded internationally and is part of the design collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY MoMA), the Smithsonian Institute, and Neue Sammlung, Munich."

Jarrett Walker is an international expert in public transit planning and policy and the author of the popular blog HumanTransit.org. He consults in North America through his own firm Jarrett Walker & Associates, and is also a Principal Consultant with MRCagney in Australia. In his new book, "Human Transit," Walker provides planners, policy-makers and citizens with the basic tools, the critical questions and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services. Join MIT Visiting Scholar Aaron Naparstek for a conversation with Jarrett Walker, as he shares his vision of "abundant access," in which public transit might be brought back to a core purpose of expanding every individual's freedom to access the riches of their city.

The New Urban InterfaceHosted by DUSP Visiting Scholar Aaron NaparstekFall 2012 City Design and Development ForumMIT DUSP CDD

Michael Sorkin is is Principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a global design practice working at all scales with a special interest in the city and green architecture, President and founder of Terreform, a non-profit institute dedicated to research into the forms and practices of just and sustainable urbanism, President of the Institute for Urban Design, and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books on architecture and urbanism.

*The Challenge and Joy of Structural Engineering is the inaugural Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design.

Topic 1The Challenge and the Joy of Structural EngineeringAssuming that this lecture will not only be attended by structural engineers but also by architects and further that as I understand an inaugural lecture should give an overview of my work, I decided for a general description of my projects with emphasis on my collaboration with architects.

Topic 2Solar Electricity from the Desert – Prosperity for allPoverty is large parts of this earth and how it could be overcome is what really occupies my mind. Since time probably does not permit to include this topic in my main lecture, I will bring it with me just in case there is time and interest.

Prof. Dr. Ing. Drs. h.c. Jörg Schlaich is a German structural engineer. He studied architecture and civil engineering from 1953 to 1955 at Stuttgart University before completing his studies at the Technical University of Berlin in 1959 (Dr. Ing.). He spent 1959-60 at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA (MSc.).

Jörg Schlaich was made a partner of the structural engineers, Leonhardt und Andrä and was responsible for the Olympic Stadium Roof, Munich in 1968-72.

From 1974 to 2000 he was full professor and director of the Institute for Concrete Structures (Institut für Massivbau), later called for Structural Design (Konstruktion und Entwurf) at the University of Stuttgart. In 1980 he and his partner, Dr. Bergermann, founded their own firm, Schlaich Bergermann und Partner in Stuttgart.

Most of his projects as well of that of his company with offices in Stuttgart, Berlin, New York, Sao Paulo and Shanghai is documented on their website (www.sbp.de). The work of schlaich bergermann und partner focuses on the three main themes of building, surveying and solar energy.

Jörg Schlaich is also the developer of the Solar Updraft Tower for large scale solar energy generation. He is credited with advancing the strut and tie model for reinforced concrete.

James Rojas will walk us through the methodology and the finding and lessons learned from over the 200 workshops he has facilitated.

Rojas is an urban planner, community activist, and artist. He is one of the few nationally recognized urban planners to examine U.S. Latino cultural influences on urban design. He holds a Master of City Planning and a Master of Science of Architecture Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His influential thesis on the Latino built environment has been widely cited.

Mr. Rojas developed a new method of community engagement for planning that targets youth, immigrants, and women. It has been highly successful and replicated. He has facilitate over 250 interactive workshops and created over 50 interactive urban diorama across the country. He has collaborated with municipalities, non-profits, educational institutions, museums and galleries to educate the public on urban planning.

Following World War II, the United States embarked on the great social and financial experiment of suburbanization. The development of suburbia created tremendous growth, opportunity and prosperity for a generation that had just lived through economic depression and war. But sprawling, automobile-dependent development would prove far too costly to sustain. Today, nearly every U.S. city is grappling with this harsh fiscal legacy. Charles Marohn joins DUSP Visiting Scholar Aaron Naparstek for a presentation and conversation on how America can get back to building Strong Towns.

The New Urban InterfaceHosted by DUSP Visiting Scholar Aaron NaparstekFall 2012 City Design and Development ForumMIT DUSP CDD

Edward Eigen, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of DesignAnaglyptography and the Phthisiophobic Imagination; or, The Passion of Louis Braille: An Historico-Religio-Numismatic Essay]]>
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Edward Eigen
SMArchS Colloquium Fall 2012 The MIT Architecture Department
Description: A short film about the MIT Architecture Department that will be exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France for the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference, Video Panorama section. The film highlights the current developments in research, technology, design, art, architecture and science that are emerging from the faculty and students of MIT's Architecture Department.

The work of the studio is very diversified in its fields of operation. Different programs pose distinct questions and challenges and produce unique projects. The method of creating and designing is similar but due to the changing specificities of the buildings that are commissioned, that is not easily displayable.

Manuel will be presenting an array of projects that share roughly the same program: houses. From the uniqueness of each example presented, it is possible to infer the contribution that each condition produces in the development of a project. These are often the most emotional and rewarding exercises as these are typologies that we all know since childhood and where the clients are more involved. It will be a display of differences in order to reason about the common grounds.

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MANUEL AIRES-MATEUS: Latest Works
MIT Architecture Spring 2012 Lecture Series Interview with William O'Brien Jr. About Winning the Rome Prize
William O'Brien Jr., an Assistant Professor of Architecture talks about winning the Rome Prize and what he intends to study while in Rome at the American Academy.]]>
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Interview with William O'Brien Jr. About Winning the Rome Prize
School of Architecture + Planning ALEJANDRO ARAVENA + Elemental recent projects: Monoliths and TreesAfter the 8.8 earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile in 2010, we have worked in the reconstruction of Constitucion proposing a mitigation forest as the main infrastructural work, but also dealing with housing, public buildings, productive activities and transportation. In 2011 we were called to perform a similar redesign of an entire city in the Atacama desert, where the Chilean Copper Company, Codelco, commissioned us to intervene at the whole scale of Calama where we are proposing an oasis. We have been also working in different buildings like the Angelini Innovation Center in Chile and the Mirador del Diablo in Mexico where architecture has become rather monolithic.]]>
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ALEJANDRO ARAVENA + Elemental recent projects: Monoliths and Trees
MIT Architecture Spring 2012 Lecture Series MIT Design and Computation GroupDescriptionResearch conducted by the members of the Design and Computation Group in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture.

AgendaThe MIT Design and Computation Group inquires into the intersection of geometries and algebras, shapes and numbers in order to trace tensions and establish passages between the seen and the spoken, the sketched and the coded, the perceptual and the cognitive, the human and the mechanic. Motivated by the vision to bridge the gap between the elusive particularities of creative design processes and the innate characteristics of informational machines, the DCG inquires into ways of thinking/describing/seeing/embodying shapes and numbers so as to generate computational interpretations of design and designerly interpretations of computation.

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MIT Design and Computation Group
School of Architecture + Planning A Few Words from the SA+P Urban Studies and Planning Graduates
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A Few Words from the SA+P Urban Studies and Planning Graduates
School of Architecture + Planning Lawrence B. Anderson MIT '30 Videodocumentary MemorialLawrence B. Anderson MIT '30 Videodocumentary MemorialColleagues of MIT Architecture professor Lawrence B. Anderson created a video tribute to him in 1994 because so little was documented in one place about his remarkable life and work. Forty participants are listed below, including: I.M. Pei * Walter Netsch Charles Correa Robert Campbell

Among many pioneering projects, Anderson designed the first important modern building on an American university campus in 1938 with his longtime partner and fellow professor Herbert L. Beckwith '26. In 1959, William E. Haible also joined the firm as partner. MIT projects include: MIT Alumni Pool, 1938 (in 2004, it was connected to Frank Gehry's Stata Center) Briggs Field House, 1939 (demolished) Radiation Lab - Bldg 24, 1941-42 Rockwell Cage, 1947 Van de Graaff Generator building, 1948 (demolished) Dorrance Food Laboratory - Bldg 16, 1952 (first building on campus taller than five stories) McCormick Hall, 1962-67 (first women's dorm at MIT) Whitaker Life Sciences Building - Bldg 56, 1963 Pierce Boathouse, 1965

Anderson was one of the most influential and beloved forces to shape the history of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, yet he is not widely known. Selected bio stats: department head and dean 1947-1972 professor for 43 years graduate of MIT and winner of Beaux-Arts Paris Prize in 1930

Anderson transformed the country's oldest university program in architecture, established in 1865, into one of its most progressive, a tradition that continues today. Influential deans who preceded Anderson: William Wurster Pietro Belluschi

* Former students Pei '40 and William Hartmann '39 established the $10,000 Lawrence B. Anderson Award in 1987.

Producer & interviewer:Victoria LaGuette '76 for the nonprofit Foundation for Modern Architecture

Primary camerawork:John Terry '68, independent filmmaker, dean and department head at the Rhode Island School of Design for 20 years, and founding member of MIT's film/video programMichael Majoros '85, documentary director & RISD faculty member

Video for the exhibit created in conjunction with the symposium “Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book”, BOOKISH explores the means and methods through which artist books challenge the book as traditionally conceived. By their selective, intentional performance and denial of normative aspects of book design, these artist-conceived objects negate such norms while sustaining their worth and continued relevance.

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BOOKISH: Artist books from the collection of the Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning, 1960-present
MIT Libraries Clearly Impossible
A video of Clearly Impossible, an installation by Zhe Huang and Yao Zhang. The installation was originally part of a larger exhibition at the MIT Museum called Ways of Seeing. It will be up at the museum until May 25th. Sponsored by Florcraft, Clearly Impossible is a MIT Museum Studio project.]]>
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School of Architecture + Planning SENSEable Cities
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SENSEable Cities
Faculty Short-Clips Keynote Address: Antanas MockusDr. Antanas Mockus’ life has traversed between academia and the public sector in his native Colombia. He studied mathematics at Dijon University in France and received a Masters in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia. He has received two doctorates honoris causa, from Paris VIII University and the National University of Colombia (UNAL), of which he was also president. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at Harvard University and Nuffield College and authored or co-authored several academic articles and books. In the public realm, he has served as mayor of Bogotá two times and has been a presidential candidate twice. He is largely responsible for the transformation in both the quality and equality of life that now exists in Bogota through unconventional policies that sought to change citizen culture, which he calls “Citizen Culture Methodology’. He is currently president of Corpovisionarios, a non-profit think tank and action center that performs research, provides advisory services and designs and implements policies that make possible voluntary changes on collective behaviors.]]>
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Keynote Address: Antanas Mockus
IDG Conference 2012 Panel 4: IDG Foundation to Future
With the evolution of international development in the last several decades, how are these changes are being reflected in the way that development scholars and practitioners are educated. This panel brings together DUSP doctoral alums who are currently professors in urban planning and international development departments in top ranking US universities. These alums will reflect on their experience at DUSP, discuss if and how the field has evolved over the years. What are some of the primary debates, challenges, and innovations being identified in the field and in their work? How are practitioners being prepared to address multi-scalar development challenges? In light of the previous panel discussions, are there major gaps that are not being adequately addressed or need to be addressed in more deeply interdisciplinary ways?

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Panel 4: IDG Foundation to Future
IDG Conference 2012 Panel 3: MIT's Interdisciplinary Approach to DevelopmentThe international development eco-system at MIT.In examining the interdisciplinary approaches to development, what is nature and composition of the international development eco-system at MIT? This panel discussion will bring together key institutional actors involved with international development within MIT, including the: Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI), MIT Energy Initiative (EI), Legatum Center, Public Service Center (PSC), and Development through Dialog, Design, and Dissemination (D-Lab). The panel will explore the actors within this internal ecosystem to identify their roles and contributions to interdisciplinary international development and the internationalization of education at MIT. What is DUSP's perspective and contribution to this international development eco-system? What is the desired impact on development practice and scholarship?

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:11:43 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/19007-panel-3-mit-s-interdisciplinary-approach-to-development
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Panel 3: MIT's Interdisciplinary Approach to Development
IDG Conference 2012 Panel 2: Social Movements and Development
A more inclusive, people-centered approach to projects and programs often eludes the financial and political flows of developmental institutions. Local, national, and international social movements are presenting new challenges to institutional arrangements at each of these scales. This panel is an attempt to understand what is significant about different types of social movements for the ways in which formal institutions engage with issues of urban development. What opportunities and challenges do these movements pose for ordinary poor people? What is leading institutions to build deeper engagements with social movements, especially those with a grassroots, community base? What potentials and pitfalls exist for these partnerships? How can these movements and partnerships be understood through academic research agendas? And can social movements develop alternative methods of development practice that can meet the extent of the challenges of urban poverty?

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:01:15 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/19006-panel-2-social-movements-and-development
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/19006-panel-2-social-movements-and-development
Panel 2: Social Movements and Development
IDG Conference 2012 Panel 1: The Evolving Int'l Development Landscape (part 2)
The international development landscape is evolving in ways that impact how development is conceived and implemented around the world. This panel brings together representatives from development finance and knowledge producing institutions to discuss the how these changes are evolving both institutionally and on the ground. International institutions are evolving and restructuring their partnerships with developing countries, shifting their focus from the national to the municipal scale, even moving from traditional financing to innovative knowledge sharing and production, including the facilitation of South-South exchange. Yet some of the persistent development challenges remain, and their urgency is more immediate with rapid urbanization in much of the developing world, the ongoing deficits in basic services for the informal poor, the impacts of human-induced natural disasters, and more. How is knowledge shared between these international institutions and among developing countries, especially in an era when many middle-income countries are financing their own development and even translating their resources and knowledge to lower-income countries?

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:15:12 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18993-panel-1-the-evolving-int-l-development-landscape-part-2
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18993-panel-1-the-evolving-int-l-development-landscape-part-2
Panel 1: The Evolving Int'l Development Landscape (part 2)
IDG Conference 2012 Opening Remarks and Panel 1: The Evolving Int'l Development Landscape (part 1)
The international development landscape is evolving in ways that impact how development is conceived and implemented around the world. This panel brings together representatives from development finance and knowledge producing institutions to discuss the how these changes are evolving both institutionally and on the ground. International institutions are evolving and restructuring their partnerships with developing countries, shifting their focus from the national to the municipal scale, even moving from traditional financing to innovative knowledge sharing and production, including the facilitation of South-South exchange. Yet some of the persistent development challenges remain, and their urgency is more immediate with rapid urbanization in much of the developing world, the ongoing deficits in basic services for the informal poor, the impacts of human-induced natural disasters, and more. How is knowledge shared between these international institutions and among developing countries, especially in an era when many middle-income countries are financing their own development and even translating their resources and knowledge to lower-income countries?

LOT-EK’s founding partners, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, have a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy (1989), and have completed post-graduate studies at Columbia University, New York (1990-1991). Besides heading their professional practice, they also teach at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture, in Cambridge, MA.

They also lecture at major universities and cultural institutions throughout the US and abroad. In December 2011, Ada and Giuseppe were recognized as USA Booth Fellows of Architecture & Design by United States Artists (USA). Nominations are made each year by an anonymous group consisting of arts leaders, critics, scholars, and artists—all selected by USA—of artists they believe show an extraordinary commitment to their craft.

RELEVANCE

LOT-EK has achieved high visibility in the architecture/design/art world for its sustainable and innovative approach to construction, materials and space through the adaptive reuse of existing industrial object and systems not originally intended for architecture. LOT-EK is also recognized for the use of technology as an integral part of architecture, for addressing issues of mobility and transformability in architecture and for blurring the boundaries between art, architecture and entertainment. Its projects are published in national and international publications, magazines and books, including The New York Times, The London Times, Herald Tribune, The Wall Street journal, Wallpaper, Domus, A+U, Interior Design, Wired, Surface, Metropolis, Vogue, Graphis and more.

LOT-EK’s first monograph, URBANSCAN, was published by PAP in February 2002. LOT-EK MIXER, by Edizioni Press, came out in 2000 and MDU Mobile Dwelling Unit, published by DAP, came out in June 2003.

SUSTAINABILITY

LOT-EK’s sustainable approach to construction through the adaptive reuse of existing industrial objects and systems has been the basis of projects at all scales. Committed to ecologically-responsible, intelligent methods of building, our team takes advantage of the technological properties of existing industrial objects resulting from decades of expert development, to create architecture. We not only recycle the objects themselves, we also recycle the intelligence that went into their development. Beyond the inherent sustainability of our design methodology, LOT-EK is committed to researching and implementing innovative ways of conserving materials and energy. As with all technological elements, we are interested in highlighting sustainable technologies visually, as ingredients to emphasize overall design concepts.

Dr. Jiawen Yang is an assistant professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a 2009 recipient of international research fellow from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He served on the Board of Directors for the International Association of China Planning, a non-profit organization promoting intellectual exchange on China’s urban development and planning. Dr. Yang holds BS and MS degrees from China’s Peking University. He received Ph.D. degree from MIT DUSP in 2005. Since then, his research has focused on urban transportation and spatial planning. He has particularly examined macro-scale transportation and land development issues in the context of metropolitan planning and governance, in both USA and China. His recent research activities include a collaborative research effort with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on public health and built-environment changes in USA metropolitan areas, and a project on China’s railway investment and regional development. His recent publications include two forthcoming articles for the Journal of American Planning Association and Urban Studies. Dr. Yang has also consulted domestically and internationally. His recent activities include Ford Motor Company’s workshop of Future Personal Mobility in China and Asian Development Bank’s project of Developing Sector Road Maps for Central and West Asia.

Topic:

China’s massive population, high density and fast economic development produce huge demand for transportation investment. For now, megacities in China are congested by cars, choked with air pollutants and constrained by housing affordability. How to sustain city and regional mobility in the ever-expanding and high-density megacities or megaregions are utmost challenges calling for innovative solutions. Will it be effective to add fixed guideway transit to the pre-existing regional highway network? How might the interest of city governments, provincial governments and central government fit each other and shape a large-scale railway investment strategy? What is its implication for future personal mobility? Please join us for more perspectives and insights on this topic.

China Urban Development Discussion Series in Spring 2012 is cosponsored by: Department of Urban Studies and Planning in the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, MIT Graduate Student Life Grants, and MIT Graduate Student Council. For more information, please visit our website . Our seminars are free and open to the public.

Dennis Frenchman is the Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, where he co-directs the Center for Advanced Urbanism. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Real Estate. He has taught and practiced extensively in Asia, Europe, and South America and served as External Advisor on urban livability to the President of the World Bank. He is also a registered architect, and founding principal of ICON architecture in Boston an international architecture and urban design firm. Prof. Frenchman’s practice and research focuses on the transformation of cities. He is an expert on the application of digital technology to city design and has designed large-scale media oriented cities and industrial clusters including Seoul Digital Media City in Korea, the Digital Mile in Zaragoza, Spain, Media City: UK in Salford, England, Twofour54 in Abu Dhabi, and Ciudad Creativa Digital, Guadalajara, Mexico. He has a particular interest in the redevelopment of industrial sites and has prepared plans for the renewal of textile mill towns, canals, rail corridors, steels mills, coal and oil fields, shipyards and ports, including many of international cultural significance. Currently he is co-directing an MIT research effort to develop new models for clean energy urbanization in China, sponsored by the Energy Foundation.

Christopher Zegras’ teaching and research interests include the inter-relations between transportation and the built and natural environments, transportation system finance and policy, and integrated system modeling. He has co-taught urban design and planning studios and Practica in Beijing, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, and Cartagena, Colombia. Current research projects include: Future Urban Mobility; Making the “Clean Energy City” in China; Travel Behavior of the Baby Boomers; and, Implementing Bus Rapid Transit: The Institutional Dimensions. He has consulted widely, including for the International Energy Agency, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Canadian, German, US, and Peruvian Governments, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the United Nations Center for Regional Development. He previously worked for the International Institute for Energy Conservation in Washington, DC and Santiago de Chile and for MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. He currently serves as the MIT Lead for the MIT-Portugal Program Transportation Systems Focus Area, on the Faculty Advisory Council of the Transportation @MIT Initiative, and on the Transportation in Developing Countries Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council.

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The Chinese urban landscape is being dramatically transformed through rapid urbanization, changing standards of living, and a massive shift to private motorized transportation. These changes are inducing cities to consume ever more energy in the face of decreasing supplies. The speakers present advances from an ongoing research project, focused on the city of Jinan, that attempts to confront the Chinese urban energy challenge by intervening at the scale of neighborhoods, commercial districts, and real estate projects – the fundamental building blocks of urban growth. The work takes a life-cycle energy use perspective and integrates empirical evidence, urban design studios, and an assessment tool, the “Energy Pro-forma,” which enables urban designers and developers to estimate the net energy use implied in urban development proposals. The ultimate goal is to not only help designers and developers create more energy efficient urban projects, but also to facilitate the creation of new public policies and standards for neighborhood energy performance for application at the local and national levels.

China Urban Development Discussion Series in Spring 2012 is cosponsored by: Department of Urban Studies and Planning in the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, MIT Graduate Student Life Grants, and MIT Graduate Student Council. For more information, please visit our website . Our seminars are free and open to the public.

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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:50:14 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18767-making-the-clean-energy-city-in-china-march-21-2012
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Making the Clean Energy City in China, March 21, 2012
China Urban Development Discussion Series, Spring 2012 MARIA ALESSANDRA SEGANTINI: C+S, Translation Architecture™
C+S believes that each project is unique and should act as a translation of the historical, socio-political, economical, physical and climatic contexts which they belong to. They define their research TranslationArchitecture™.

Working on the integration of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture and ecology, C+S has developed an extensive catalogue of architectural and urban stra­tegies, which aim to erase architecture as an object, instead melting it into the design of the landscape and translating it into contemporary universal values the power of the environment specificity, the community's expectations, the culture, the memory and the climate. The detailed analysis of the program and the site from both a cultural, social, physical and climatic point of view are the necessary conditions to approach design which is the result of the correct melting of concepts such as scale, form, community spirit and detailed design.

Maria Alessandra Segantini is partner, with Carlo Cappai, of C+S based in Italy.

She was educated at IUAV, University of Architecture of Venice, where she received an Awarded Master Degree in Architecture in 1991. C+S works internationally in the different fields of architecture: urban design and the design of the landscape, architectural design, interior design both for the private and the public sectors.

C+S won many international competitions: Policlinic Hospital in Milan, Tenova headquarters in Verese, housing complex in Japan, university students’ housing in Murano (Venice) and the law court offices of Venice.

Segantini has lectured internationally and has been visiting professor in several universities of architecture. C+S has exhibited at the 8th and 12th Biennale of Architecture and in the 50th Biennale of Art Exhibition. C+S works won or were selected in many architectural design awards among which are: the Gold Medal of Italian Architecture 2006 (section education), the selection in the Mies Van der Rohe Award 2009, the honorable mention in the AR AWARD 2008, in the FarbDesign Preis in München and in the Dedalo_Minosse International Award 2011, the SFIDE 2009 of the Italian Ministry of Environment and the Faces of Design Award, Berlin 2010.

C+S architectural projects have been published in significant international magazines such as A+U, Architectural Review, C3, Detail, Domus, and Abitare.Segantini’s books, among which Contemporary Housing (Milan 2008) and Learning from Space (at press), are the results of her research.

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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:32:13 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18743-maria-alessandra-segantini-c-s-translation-architecture
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MARIA ALESSANDRA SEGANTINI: C+S, Translation Architecture™
MIT Architecture Spring 2012 Lecture Series GLENN ADAMSON: Curating PostmodernismGlenn Adamson is the Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He leads the Research Department’s activities, working closely with colleagues within the museum and in collaboration with scholars and institutions worldwide. He holds a PhD in art history from Yale University, and was previously curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. Dr. Adamson co-curated (with Jane Pavitt) the exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 to 1990, which opened at the V&A in 2011. He has also written widely on craft history and theory, in such books as Thinking Through Craft (2007), The Craft Reader (2010), and The Invention of Craft (2012); and has edited numerous publications including the triannual Journal of Modern Craft, the volume Global Design History (co-edited with Giorgio Riello and Sarah Teasley, 2011), and Surface Tensions (co-edited with Victoria Kelley, 2012).

João Ribas is Curator of the List Visual Arts Center at MIT and was previously Curator at The Drawing Center, New York. His writing has appeared in numerous art and culture publications, and he is the recipient of three consecutive International Art Critics Awards for Best exhibition in a Non-Profit Space, and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. João’s recent curated exhibitions include the Otto Piene: Lichtballet installation at the List Visual Arts Center (2011), Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom (MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2011) Manon de Boer (Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2011); FAX (Carpenter Center, Harvard University, 2011): Frances Stark (MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2010); and Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World (Drawing Center, 2009). He has contributed essays to numerous publications and monographs, and has been a visiting lecturer for institutions and organizations worldwide. He was previously adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Born in Beirut in 1974, Makram el Kadi received his bachelor of architecture degree from the American University of Beirut in 1997 and his masters of architecture from Parsons School of Design in 1999. After working at the offices of Fumihiko Maki in Japan, he joined Steven Holl Architects where for 5 years he was project architect on numerous international projects, among them the World Trade Center proposal with Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman and Charles Gwathmey, and the winning entry to the natural history museum of Los Angeles county competition. Mr. El Kadi taught architecture studio with Steven Holl at the Columbia University School of Architecture Planning and Preservation GSAPP in 2004 and 2005 and as part of L.E.FT at Cornell University in 2006, and currently teaches graduate studio at MIT where he serves at the Aga Khan visiting Lecturer. He also has a regular teaching position at Yale where was the Louis Kahn visiting assistant professor of architecture and has been part of the Yale faculty since 2009.

ZIAD JAMALEDDINE

Born in Beirut in 1971, Ziad Jamaleddine received his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut in 1995, where he won the Areen Award for excellence in design. He received his Masters degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1999. Mr. Jamaleddine worked for Steven Holl Architects for 5 years where he was the assistant to project architect for Simmons Hall dormitory at M.I.T, (winner of the National AIA Design award in 2003 and the New York AIA award in 2002), and the project architect for the design and development of the Beirut Marina project in downtown Beirut. Mr. Jamaleddine co-taught Vertical studio and seminar at Cornell University, Third-Year Graduate Advanced Architectural Design Studio at PennDesign, and Vertical Studio at Rensselaer (RPI) School of Architecture.]]>
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:07:34 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18704-ziad-jamaleddine-makram-el-kadi-l-e-ft-recent-works-lebanon
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ZIAD JAMALEDDINE + MAKRAM EL KADI: L.E.FT - RECENT WORKS, LEBANON
MIT Architecture Spring 2012 Lecture Series MARK WEST: Heavy Light - Finding Biomimetic Construction
Concrete has been formed in rigid molds since its invention in Ancient Rome. Very recently however, the possibility of a new architectural and structural language has emerged based on the use of flexible fabric formworks that are shaped by an internal response to the weight and pressure of wet concrete. This way of building results in works of great simplicity, economy, and beauty. This lecture will present many examples of this approach to construction and design, and explore the methods of discovery used at the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology (CAST), in Winnipeg, Canada]]>
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:21:00 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18632-mark-west-heavy-light-finding-biomimetic-construction
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18632-mark-west-heavy-light-finding-biomimetic-construction
MARK WEST: Heavy Light - Finding Biomimetic Construction
MIT Architecture Spring 2012 Lecture Series Jill Desimini, "Value in Vacancy: Landscape and the Shrinking City"
Jill Desimini is a landscape architect and an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at theHarvard University Graduate School of Design. Her research focuses on landscape strategies for shrinking cities in North America. The work attempts to re-frame the normative dialogue surrounding population loss towards a productive outcome. Prior to joining the GSD, she was a senior associate at Stoss Landscape Urbanism. She holds MLA and MArch degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.]]>
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:45:02 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18621-jill-desimini-value-in-vacancy-landscape-and-the-shrinking-city
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Jill Desimini, "Value in Vacancy: Landscape and the Shrinking City"
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning An Interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"
An interview with Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH", showing in the Wolk Gallery from February 15th to June 8th, 2012. Phil talks about his design process, his time as a student at MIT, and the importance of encouraging diversity in the profession of Architecture.]]>
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http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18424-an-interview-with-phil-freelon-about-reach
An Interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"
School of Architecture + Planning What Divine Irony: Hoods are Still Causing Pain
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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:29:21 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18391-what-divine-irony-hoods-are-still-causing-pain
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What Divine Irony: Hoods are Still Causing Pain
The Community Innovators Lab The Relaxed Zone Overlay: A Planning and Zoning Tool for Smart Shrinkage
Justin Hollander, PhD, AICP is an Assistant Professorof Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at TuftsUniversity and a Research Scientist at the George PerkinsMarsh Institute at Clark University. He is the author ofSunburnt Cities: The Great Recession, Depopulation andUrban Planning in the American Sunbelt (Routledge,2011) and two other books examining the challenges ofplanning for post-industrial, shrinking cities.]]>
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:35:51 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18098-the-relaxed-zone-overlay-a-planning-and-zoning-tool-for-smart-shrinkage
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The Relaxed Zone Overlay: A Planning and Zoning Tool for Smart Shrinkage
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning When Life Gives You Lemons: Informal and Bottom-Up Urbanism
Daniel D'Oca is an urban planner, educator, and curatorwho specializes in the politics of the contemporary builtenvironment in America. He is Design Critic in UrbanPlanning and Design at the Harvard Design School, andPrincipal and co-founder of Interboro Partners, a NewYork-based architecture, planning, and research firmthat has won many awards for its innovative projects,including: the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program,the Architectural League's Emerging Voices and YoungArchitects Awards, and the New Practices Award fromthe AIA New York Chapter. Interboro's forthcoming book,The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion, will be publishedby Actar in 2012.]]>
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:13:34 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18097-when-life-gives-you-lemons-informal-and-bottom-up-urbanism
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When Life Gives You Lemons: Informal and Bottom-Up Urbanism
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Phantom Buffalo plays in Biddeford, Maine
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:48:52 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17778-phantom-buffalo-plays-in-biddeford-maine
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17778-phantom-buffalo-plays-in-biddeford-maine
Phantom Buffalo plays in Biddeford, Maine
The Community Innovators Lab Charles J. Connick and MIT
Charles J. Connick (1875-1945) was a preeminent American stained glass artist whose work may be found in cities all across the United States. In 2008 the Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation generously donated its collection to the MIT Libraries. This tells the story of Charles J. Connick the artist, his work, and his connection to MIT.]]>
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:51:16 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17640-charles-j-connick-and-mit
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Charles J. Connick and MIT
MIT Libraries Ashford-Opening Up the Problem Space -- Government's Role
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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:19:06 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17630-ashford-opening-up-the-problem-space-government-s-role
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Ashford-Opening Up the Problem Space -- Government's Role
Industrial Liaison Program Ashford-Achieving Economic Growth
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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:10:02 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17626-ashford-achieving-economic-growth
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Ashford-Achieving Economic Growth
Industrial Liaison Program Corporate Opportunities in Urban Mobility
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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:54:08 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17581-corporate-opportunities-in-urban-mobility
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Corporate Opportunities in Urban Mobility
Industrial Liaison Program 6.270 Autonomous Robotics Competition: Part 2
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:35:12 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17548-6-270-autonomous-robotics-competition-part-2
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6.270 Autonomous Robotics Competition: Part 2
6.270 BLOSSOMS - The Mailman and the Five Packages: Data Packets and Data Transfer Speed (Arabic with English Subtitles)
This lesson will explain the process of data transfer throughout computer systems, and the form the data gets transferred into. Additionally, the lesson will touch on some factors that alter the transfer speed. Simple analogies and examples are used to explain complicated concepts.]]>
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:04:46 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17490-blossoms-the-mailman-and-the-five-packages-data-packets-and-data-transfer-speed-arabic-with-english-s
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17490-blossoms-the-mailman-and-the-five-packages-data-packets-and-data-transfer-speed-arabic-with-english-s
BLOSSOMS - The Mailman and the Five Packages: Data Packets and Data Transfer Speed (Arabic with English Subtitles)
Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS) fcp_10capMon, 30 Jan 2012 19:25:53 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17463-fcp_10cap
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IBM MIT HBS - Watson Challenge fcp_9capMon, 30 Jan 2012 19:21:46 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17462-fcp_9cap
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IBM MIT HBS - Watson Challenge fcp_8capMon, 30 Jan 2012 19:16:43 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17461-fcp_8cap
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IBM MIT HBS - Watson Challenge Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Video Artist
Excerpt from an interview with Elizabeth Anne Watkins, MS Candidate in Art, Culture and Technology. In this video Elizabeth talks about her research into time-based media.]]>
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:30:20 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17423-elizabeth-anne-watkins-video-artist
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Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Video Artist
School of Architecture + Planning examplesFri, 20 Jan 2012 19:32:08 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17335-examples
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examples
Big Games excerpts from TGSSIFri, 20 Jan 2012 19:30:47 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17334-excerpts-from-tgssi
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/17334-excerpts-from-tgssi
excerpts from TGSSI
Big Games The Mercury Game
The Mercury Game is a negotiation simulation that is designed to teach people about the role of science in international environmental policy making.

Description: Research can be serious fun, as these three scientists demonstrate in wide"ranging presentations encompassing sculpture, robotics and even time travel.

Forget the swan"shaped napkins served up by restaurants. Erik Demaine's origami involves thousands of folds and a year's worth of labor, and leaps from art to math and back. In these creations, Demaine finds infinite challenge and engagement. He shows examples of pleated folding in which hyperbolic paraboloids link up, via complex algorithms into intriguing new geometries. Demaine says, "On the scientific side, I want to know what the paper is doing," so he builds simulations using photographs of real paper, ending up with a virtual model of a physical piece of paper, to generate more paper origami creations. (Demaine's work, sometimes accomplished in association with his father, resides in collections of the world's finest art museums.) When Demaine is stuck with a math problem, he "can just build a sculpture to illustrate why the math problem is hard." He also uses mathematics to figure out how to build a sculpture. He recommends this approach because it offers "the flexibility to jump back and forth between worlds."

Daniela Rus has been developing an origami free of human labor, where sheets "organize themselves as objects and program their own shapes." Her ultimate goal is to program various kinds of matter, embedding different materials with actuators, sensors, communication capabilities, and providing the software required for self"shaping processes. She shows a suite of functional objects inspired by origami, including a worm robot made of out of creased patterns, printed three"dimensionally out of a single sheet of paper. Rus has also created smart rocks that are actually a collection of robotic cubes that "talk to each other" and make decisions about how to come together to achieve a desired design, such as a dog. She is aiming for self"assembling robots that might traverse tunnels with snakelike shapes. Rus believes programmable materials will have a great impact on manufacturing. " Imagine a robot Kinkos of 2020, where you don't go to print a poster, but to print a robot."

No origami for Scott Aaronson, but instead deep probing about the limitations of computation, even as technological progress delivers more problem"solving power. He discusses the idea of problems that are simply intractable for computers, and wonders "if there is any feasible way to solve these problems consistent with the laws of physics." Aaronson envisions hypothetical devices, such as a time travel computer, where in a universe with "closed timelike curves," nature "would be forced to solve a very hard computational problem" such as going back in time and "telling Shakespeare what plays he was going to write." Another, less hypothetical concept for solving problems involves quantum computing. Groups today are working on implementing such computers, using ion tracks and nuclear magnetic resonance. However, says Aaronson, quantum computing to date can only "verify that with a high probability, 15 is equal to three times five." While it is possible "to imagine mathematical computers that vastly exceed" the capability of current technology, enormous challenges remain.

About the Speaker(s): Erik D. Demaine pursues wide"ranging research interests, including data structures for improving web searches to the geometry of understanding how proteins fold to the computational difficulty of playing games. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 as a "computational geometer tackling and solving difficult problems related to folding and bending--moving readily between the theoretical and the playful, with a keen eye to revealing the former in the latter". He appears in the recent origami documentary Between the Folds; cowrote a book about the theory of folding, Geometric Folding Algorithms; and a book about the computational complexity of games, Games, Puzzles, and Computation. His interests span the connections between mathematics and art, particularly sculpture and performance, including curved origami sculptures in the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

Host(s): Office of the President, MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

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Current Research IV
MIT World — special events and lectures Civic Media Lunch: "ZUMIX" (full version)ZUMIX is an East Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building our community through music and the arts. A core belief is that music is the most powerful means of developing adolescent self-identity. Our award-winning music and creative technology programming is designed to equip youth with the tools necessary to reach their full potential, while creating a safe space for youth to explore who they are and who they want to be. Through community events, ZUMIX provides access to top-quality arts experiences for a low-income, under-served neighborhood.

Madeleine Steczynski, Co-Founder and Executive Director, is an East Boston resident. She founded ZUMIX in 1991 in response to the worst year of violence in the City of Boston's history. Together with ZUMIX's Board of Directors and Youth Advisory Board, she has grown ZUMIX from a kitchen table project into a vital East Boston community institution. As an advocate for the arts, Madeleine has served on the Executive Committee for East Boston Healthy Boston Coalition; was one of the founding members of Cultural Connections, a three-year effort to integrate arts as part of a Sustainable Community initiative funded by The PEW Charitable Trust; and served as an Artistic Fellow for The Boston Foundation’s Arts and Audiences Initiative. n 2009 she successfully completed a $4.6 million dollar capital campaign and moved ZUMIX into its new home. In 2011 Madeleine started a 3-year learning journey as a prestigious Barr Fellow. Madeleine attended Boston College, the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, and the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University.

Elena Botkin-Levy, ZUMIX Radio Coordinator, is a radio producer, educator and enthusiast. She started producing radio as a teenager, co-founding RadioActive Youth — a youth-run radio program in Western Massachusetts. Since then she has continued to deepen her love of radio. At WMUA 91.1FM in Amherst, she facilitated and engineered a local community radio-programming block. As a coordinator with the Prometheus Radio Project, Elena organized with community radio stations across the country and she traveled to Kenya to partner with international community radio organizers. She has produced radio documentaries and news for national broadcast. Her radio work has aired on Making Contact, Free Speech Radio News, and Crosscurrents. In Oakland, California, Elena coordinated and produced radio programs with the National Radio Project. She also taught radio production to youth at outLoud Radio in San Francisco.

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Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:30:33 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15734-civic-media-lunch-zumix-full-version
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Civic Media Lunch: "ZUMIX" (full version)
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Annette Kim: Urban Planning + Art Practice?
On November 30, 2011, over 50 professors and students from RISD, MIT, and Harvard met to hear about Dr. Annette Kim’s latest research project and to discuss how to bring about greater synergies between the visual design and social science research ends of urban planning. SLAB: sidewalk laboratory is her research project that employs critical cartography to unveil greater knowledge about this important public space and to propose changes in planning paradigms. The case presented focuses on Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s rich sidewalk life and advocates for street vendors.

Annette M. Kim is associate professor of international development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She has a masters degree in visual studies and a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley.

The presentation is a case study of Jerusalem, the most destroyed and rebuilt city in history, and a major site for the three great monotheistic religions which are now adhered to by more than half the religious population of the world. Basic ideas of loss and restitution are briefly examined in the stories and laws of the Jewish, Christian and Moslem texts, as well as in some writing in psychiatry, and in the eschatologies arising from Jerusalem in particular. Some of these are then applied to four case studies of major shrines in Jerusalem: the built and imagined Temples of the Jews, destroyed and never rebuilt; the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre, frequently destroyed but constantly rebuilt; the Moslem buildings on the Haram-al-Sharif, threatened but never destroyed by human hands; and the Hurva synagogue, twice destroyed, and as of yet not rebuilt but involving important design proposals by famous architects over the past 25 years. Finally twelve general principles of the resilience of buildings are put forward, derived from both the religious and architectural evidence of Jerusalem.

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

When cities have suffered major destruction in the past, through fire, earthquake, bombing, and so on, the physical rebuilding task has involved (1) recreating network infrastructure -- transportation networks, water supply, etc., and (2) replacing residential, commercial, industrial, and other floor space supported by that infrastructure. The task of reconstructing Lower Manhattan after the September 11 attacks obviously has these aspects, but there are some additional ones as well. First, the reconstruction of digital telecommunications networks is now a critically important infrastructure issue -- particularly given the nature of the enterprises that were displaced. This reconstruction began to unfold almost instantly, since such networks -- particularly the Internet -- are increasingly designed to be self-repairing, and to route automatically around damage. Secondly, at least some of the dispersal of enterprises that followed September 11 may turn out to be irreversible; to reduce future vulnerability, displaced enterprises may choose greater dispersal and facility redundancy, supported by sophisticated electronic telecommunications, rather than return to place all their eggs in one basket.

Mitchell and Townsend explore the new conditions and strategies of urban rebuilding in the digital electronic era, examine what has actually happened in Manhattan so far, and make some suggestions about achieving high levels of urban resilience in the future.

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

Natural disasters, fires, and earthquakes, destroyed Japan's cities in whole or in part on numerous occasions over the last centuries. Human intervention, political change, modernization, and the air raids of the Second World War brought about further destruction and promoted the transformation of the Japanese city in the 19th and 20th centuries. Carola Hein argues that the traditional patchwork character of Japanese cities allowed for flexibility in their transformation, and that many traditional features of Japanese urbanism survived in spite of the obvious changes. The reconstruction of Japanese cities was generally left to private initiative and comprehensive centralized planning intervention, and only occurred when and where the cities had to be adapted to political, economic, social and cultural changes.

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:49:03 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15116-fires-earthquakes-modernization-and-air-strikes-the-destruction-and-revival-of-japan-s-cities
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Fires, Earthquakes, Modernization and Air Strikes: The Destruction and Revival of Japan's Cities
MIT World — special events and lectures After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles Following the Trauma of 1992
William Fulton

In addition to dealing with natural disasters, Los Angeles has repeatedly had to deal with social and civic unrest over the past 40 years-most recently in 1992, when widespread unrest rattled a region already afflicted with floods, fires, earthquakes, and a recession. The past decade has seen renewed efforts to unify the city and revitalize long-distressed section of central and south-central L.A. But have improvements really been made? And however resilient it may be socially and economically, can Los Angeles remain unified enough politically to continue to function as a single city?

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:36:25 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15113-after-the-unrest-ten-years-of-rebuilding-los-angeles-following-the-trauma-of-1992
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After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles Following the Trauma of 1992
MIT World — special events and lectures Patriotism and Reconstruction: Washington, DC after Conquest and Arson during the War of 1812
Anthony S. Pitch

The 24-hour occupation of the nation's capital by British forces during the War of 1812 was arguably the lowest point in American history. The President fled to Virginia hours before the invaders torched the White House, Capitol, State and War Departments, and the Treasury. The colossal buildings that represented the hopes and aspirations of the young Republic were now wizened and hollow in what was nothing more than a 14-year-old glorified village, with 8,000 residents. It should have doomed the infant capital to instant oblivion, with many claiming the moment was opportune to relocate to Philadelphia or elsewhere to save the cost of rebuilding. But a surge of patriotism followed the heroic defense of Fort McHenry, the birth of the anthem, and a monumental victory over the British at New Orleans. It reinvigorated those in Congress invoking the memory of George Washington, who had personally selected the site for a capital and marked the locations of its major public buildings. Local businessmen overcame Congressional critics citing post-war depleted Treasury coffers, by proffering bank loans to fund the costly estimates. Yet even though Washington won the vital reprieve as America's capital, rebuilding would be halting and arduous, slowed and marred by squabbling over designs, construction material, a paucity of creative artists, and financial restraints. But the monumental buildings would rise again, with legislators reconvening in even more splendid comfort, due in no small measure to a President who micromanaged, keenly aware that a rebuilt White House and Capitol would be symbolic of national resilience and unity.

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

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Patriotism and Reconstruction: Washington, DC after Conquest and Arson during the War of 1812
MIT World — special events and lectures Beirut, Beirut
Hashim Sarkis

Through a series of cases in the history of the reconstruction of Beirut (from 1990 to the present), Hashim Sarkis illustrates a number of points and characteristics about Beirut's resilience.
The type of resilience that Beirut exhibits is shaped to a great extent by its disproportionate scale in the economy and politics of the country. It is more "Beirut, Beirut" than "Beirut, Lebanon." Reconstruction is more time consuming than destruction, and by the time we get to the reconstruction of buildings, their place in both memory and in space usually shifts. There is also considerable tension between architecture and infrastructure when it comes to reconstruction, and infrastructure usually wins. The historical burden of preservation overwhelms the first phases of reconstruction and tends to dim innovative design thinking in the later stages. Different approaches (restoration, renovation, rehabilitation) and mechanisms (private, public, collaborative) coexist in a competitive manner. There is a lag effect between the planned and the unplanned aspects of reconstruction, a dynamic that is often stronger than either one. Places hold a strong character that survives destruction, but character is not always expressed in physical form. While the marks on destruction appear strongest in architecture, the expressions of continuity, reconciliation, and resilience are stronger (and more effective) in other media such as novels (e.g. Beirut, Beirut; The Water Ploughman) and films (e.g.: Beirut ya Beirut; West Beirut).

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

In this lecture, Diane Davis examines the impact of Mexico City's 1985 disastrous earthquake on the social, spatial, and political character of Mexico's capital city.
Davis discusses the earthquake's implications for social movement, the character of land use and property ownership, and the legitimacy of the capital city's political leaders and major construction contractors and argues that sometimes physical disasters such as earthquakes can produce profoundly unanticipated beneficial effects.
In addition to empowering urban citizens to organize on their own behalf to challenge a corrupt and highly bureaucratized local government, (and thereby accelerating the urban democratic transition) Mexico City's earthquake also helped expose the political biases of government authorities and weakened the strong hold of street vendors and the informal sector on the local economy and land use. As a result, Mexico City now is governed by a democratic and more socially responsible government committed to fostering citizen participation, building new low-income housing projects, and "rescuing" Mexico City's historic cultural heritage, all with the aim of recapturing the social and symbolic centrality of the downtown area, where the earthquake produced most damage.

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

The reconstruction of Berlin, after the massive destruction it suffered in World War II, was complicated in two fundamental ways. First was the question of historical continuity. On the one hand, there was a desire to reconstruct: to repair a damaged but extant city or, more broadly, to continue its best traditions in architectural style, social policy, and economic development. On the other hand, everyone in charge was determined to break demonstratively with the immediate past, that is, with the Third Reich; but they did not agree about which cultural, architectural, or urbanistic traditions were the Nazi ones. The second complication arose from the fact that the city was soon divided between two ideologically opposed regimes in east and west, each determined to claim the legacy of pre-Nazi Berlin, to display the clearer break with Hitler, and to prove its cultural and political superiority. Under these complicated circumstances, the rebuilding of Berlin became one of the most visible venues of the early Cold War, even as it remained a matter of basic comfort and prosperity for ordinary Berliners.

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development

Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can be both compelling and inspiring. He discusses industrialization and cultural responses to disaster, with analysis of narrative accounts of disaster as well as performative accounts that have served to reassure Americans that new and improved urban environments can come of disaster. He further explores how the "mass consumer culture" of America has shaped American responses to events of September 11th.

School of Architecture and Planning, Joint Program in City Design and Development, ESD

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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:04:11 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15107-spectacular-reconstructions-ways-of-seeing-and-the-politics-of-recovery-in-american-urban-disasters
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Spectacular Reconstructions: Ways of Seeing and the Politics of Recovery in American Urban Disasters
MIT World — special events and lectures Creatively Destroying New York: Fantasies, Premonitions, and Realities in the Provisional City
Max Page

This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of looking at a central experience, and cultural trope, about New York City: that it is a city of creative destruction, regularly destroying and rebuilding itself. Professor Page begins with a discussion of extraordinary moments of destruction, both natural and human-made (from fires and blizzards, to acts of terrorism), and then argues that it is the "regular" processes of creative destruction - through private real estate development and government urban renewal - which are far more important in shaping both New York's physical organization as well as its cultural image. Finally, he explores how the imagination of New York's destruction - in art, literature, and cinema - is not only at the heart of New York life but of American culture as a whole.

Joint Program in City Design and Development

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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:57:37 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15105-creatively-destroying-new-york-fantasies-premonitions-and-realities-in-the-provisional-city
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Creatively Destroying New York: Fantasies, Premonitions, and Realities in the Provisional City
MIT World — special events and lectures Creatively Destroying New York: Fantasies, Premonitions, and Realities in the Provisional City
Max Page

This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of looking at a central experience, and cultural trope, about New York City: that it is a city of creative destruction, regularly destroying and rebuilding itself. Professor Page begins with a discussion of extraordinary moments of destruction, both natural and human-made (from fires and blizzards, to acts of terrorism), and then argues that it is the "regular" processes of creative destruction - through private real estate development and government urban renewal - which are far more important in shaping both New York's physical organization as well as its cultural image. Finally, he explores how the imagination of New York's destruction - in art, literature, and cinema - is not only at the heart of New York life but of American culture as a whole.

Joint Program in City Design and Development

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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:21:15 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15104-creatively-destroying-new-york-fantasies-premonitions-and-realities-in-the-provisional-city
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Creatively Destroying New York: Fantasies, Premonitions, and Realities in the Provisional City
MIT World — special events and lectures Reinventing the City @ MIT: Economics and the Sustainable City
Economics and the Sustainable CityThursday, November 3, 2011, 5:00-7:00pmMIT 3-133

Three urban economists discuss how economic principles will help cities to create a smaller environmental footprint.

David Albouy, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; and Research Associate at the Office of Tax Policy Research

Eran Ben-Joseph, , Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design; Head of the Joint Program in City Design and Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Judith Layzer, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Head of Environmental Policy and Planning Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

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Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:17:41 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15079-reinventing-the-city-mit-economics-and-the-sustainable-city
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Reinventing the City @ MIT: Economics and the Sustainable City
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning street chairs groovin at satchel'sMon, 31 Oct 2011 09:37:43 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15006-street-chairs-groovin-at-satchel-s
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/15006-street-chairs-groovin-at-satchel-s
street chairs groovin at satchel's
The Community Innovators Lab Forlorn Office Chair Celebrates Halloween in Salem, Cheers Up.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:35:34 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/14895-forlorn-office-chair-celebrates-halloween-in-salem-cheers-up
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Forlorn Office Chair Celebrates Halloween in Salem, Cheers Up.
The Community Innovators Lab Discarded French Chair Makes Its Way to Wilmington, OhioSun, 23 Oct 2011 13:34:49 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/14848-discarded-french-chair-makes-its-way-to-wilmington-ohio
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Discarded French Chair Makes Its Way to Wilmington, Ohio
The Community Innovators Lab Luc Anselin: The Future of Spatial Analysis, Visualization, and GIS in Planning
During 2011-2012, the Department of Urban Studies & Planning will host a series of high-profile speakers and panels on a wide-range of topics related to the future of cities, planning, participation, economies, technology, design, and development. This series is part of a multi-year initiative in the department to raise cutting-edge questions about the field in an era of rapid change.

Luc Anselin is the Director and Walter Isard Chair at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. He is also the Director of the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation. He has previously held appointments at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he directed the Spatial Analysis Laboratory in the Department of Geography and was a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center of Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the University of Texas at Dallas, West Virginia University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Ohio State University. He has held (joint) appointments in a range of disciplines, including Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Economics, Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Political Economy, and Political Science.

Leon Glicksman, Professor of Building Technology and Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Presentation Date: May 16, 2011

Abstract

Residential and commercial buildings use 40 percent of US energy and over two thirds of our electricity. There are numerous opportunities to reduce the consumption including advanced technologies as well as traditional measures. These include renewable energy, cool roofs, natural ventilation and continuous commissioning. We will discuss the energy savings and economic implications of these choices.

Biography

Leon Glicksman is a Professor of Building Technology and Mechanical Engineering. He founded the Building technology Group at MIT 23 years ago. He has carried out research on natural ventilation, thermal insulation, and software tools for energy efficient design. He is a member of the Energy Council of the MIT Energy Initiative.

A historical perspective of exploration and discovery with leading authors.

WelcomeDavid A. Mindell PhD '96 - Chair of the MIT150 Steering Committee; Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Engineering Systems; Head, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society

SpeakersStephen J. Pyne - Author and Regents' Professor, Arizona State UniversityRosalind H. Williams - Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, MITDavid A. Mindell PhD '96 - Chair of the MIT150 Steering Committee; Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Engineering Systems; Head, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
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Fri, 13 May 2011 10:46:13 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/12855-great-ages-of-exploration-and-discovery-panel
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Great Ages of Exploration and Discovery Panel
MIT150 Symposia: Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration Symposium MIT Astronaut Alumni Panel: Exploration and Discovery
MIT150 SymposiumEarth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration

MIT alumni astronauts discuss spaceflight experiences that range from Gemini to Apollo through the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station missions.

This morning the MIT’s Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development (CTPID),in collaboration with the new Journal of Enterprise Transformation (JET), featured enterprise transformation thought leaders who shared their insights on leading and sustaining transformation efforts.
Keynote speakers Prof. Michael D. Oliff, Author of the Transformation In The Age of Turbulence, and Mr. Anthony J. (Tony) DiMaso, Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development at Verizon, addressed a multidisciplinary audience at MIT’s Sloan School of Management on the topic of Enterprise Transformation.
Dr. Oliff delighted us with a very passionate speech on the importance of fostering a corporate “stretch culture” that supports taking big steps in culture change and business process improvement while maintaining a sense of customer satisfaction. Next, Mr. Dimaso provided deep insight into Verizon’s corporate strategy for growth through value creation in the fast changing and highly competitive market environment served by the Telecom industry.
During the panel discussion we were inspired by Mr. John Oehlke, Vice President of Business Transformation at Coca-Cola North America. Mr. Oehlke related an early goal of Coca-Cola company, to keep Coke “within an arm’s reach of desire.” While expanding internationally in early of 20th century, Coca-Cola company strove to allow US troops to keep enjoying the soda while on missions abroad. Now, in order to keep on the leadership of the market, the company experienced important transformation while maintaining that same core mission of easy access to their myriad product line. However, in my opinion, the same value persists of delighting their customers, whether with Coke or with bottled water.
Providing academic insights to the panel, Prof. Deborah Nightingale, Director Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development (CTPID) at MIT, spoke on the utility that a framework based on -ilities (very similar to the one we study in our course 16.855/ESD.38 Enterprise Architecting) brings to execution of concept generation and selection of the potential change targets in a enterprise transformation process. All of which begins with corporate strategy in a transformation in order to avoid diminishing return.
Keeping customers satisfaction high while their values are constantly changing is a challenge for many organizations. The ability to architect the change by having a proper assessment of the current view, by projecting the desired goal and evaluating potential options is something that corporations must practice in order to keep their business units constantly learning.
I am very interested to keep learning about how Enterprise Architecture can enable companies to capitalize on opportunities during recession. Definitely I am still exploring how system dynamics and a better understanding of social media tools empowers employees, customers, and transformation leaders to facilitate the enterprise transformation.
- Thanks to Victor Piper for the edition of this blog post. Check Victor's blog for his comments about the event.
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:14:51 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/11229-verizon-and-coca-cola-perspectives-on-enterprise-transformation
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Verizon and Coca-Cola Perspectives on Enterprise Transformation
Rafael Marañón, Co-founder MIT Social Media Club Perspectives on Enterprise TransformationRafael Marañón, Co-founder MIT Social Media Club

This morning the MIT’s Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development (CTPID),in collaboration with the new Journal of Enterprise Transformation (JET), featured enterprise transformation thought leaders who shared their insights on leading and sustaining transformation efforts.
Keynote speakers Prof. Michael D. Oliff, Author of the Transformation In The Age of Turbulence, and Mr. Anthony J. (Tony) DiMaso, Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development at Verizon, addressed a multidisciplinary audience at MIT’s Sloan School of Management on the topic of Enterprise Transformation.
Dr. Oliff delighted us with a very passionate speech on the importance of fostering a corporate “stretch culture” that supports taking big steps in culture change and business process improvement while maintaining a sense of customer satisfaction. Next, Mr. Dimaso provided deep insight into Verizon’s corporate strategy for growth through value creation in the fast changing and highly competitive market environment served by the Telecom industry.
During the panel discussion we were inspired by Mr. John Oehlke, Vice President of Business Transformation at Coca-Cola North America. Mr. Oehlke related an early goal of Coca-Cola company, to keep Coke “within an arm’s reach of desire.” While expanding internationally in early of 20th century, Coca-Cola company strove to allow US troops to keep enjoying the soda while on missions abroad. Now, in order to keep on the leadership of the market, the company experienced important transformation while maintaining that same core mission of easy access to their myriad product line. However, in my opinion, the same value persists of delighting their customers, whether with Coke or with bottled water.
Providing academic insights to the panel, Prof. Deborah Nightingale, Director Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development (CTPID) at MIT, spoke on the utility that a framework based on -ilities (very similar to the one we study in our course 16.855/ESD.38 Enterprise Architecting) brings to execution of concept generation and selection of the potential change targets in a enterprise transformation process. All of which begins with corporate strategy in a transformation in order to avoid diminishing return.
Keeping customers satisfaction high while their values are constantly changing is a challenge for many organizations. The ability to architect the change by having a proper assessment of the current view, by projecting the desired goal and evaluating potential options is something that corporations must practice in order to keep their business units constantly learning.
I am very interested to keep learning about how Enterprise Architecture can enable companies to capitalize on opportunities during recession. Definitely I am still exploring how system dynamics and a better understanding of social media tools empowers employees, customers, and transformation leaders to facilitate the enterprise transformation.
- Thanks to Victor Piper for the edition of this blog post. Check Victor's blog for his comments about the event.
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:34:26 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/11222-perspectives-on-enterprise-transformation
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Perspectives on Enterprise Transformation
Rafael Marañón, Co-founder MIT Social Media Club Improviso Gameplay TrailerImproviso is a game about ACTING! Players are paired online as the Lead Actor and Director of a low-budget science fiction movie. The Lead Actor plays the role of Ted, a reporter trying to get his big break with a cover story about the government's alien cover-up. The Director selects scenes, chooses the soundtrack, summons special effects, and controls the supporting cast: the Scientist, the Alien, the Government Agent, and the Little Girl. Players work together to dramatize three short scenes taking place in Area 51, a crashed spaceship, and a wilderness camp site. The chat log encourages performances with Oscar-worthy dialogue, and a point-and-click interface enables actors to interact with numerous props, change costumes, and even play dead!
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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Zoolander Good take 2Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:06:00 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/11100-zoolander-good-take-2
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Acting for the Camera Zoolander Take 1Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:03:46 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/11099-zoolander-take-1
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Acting for the Camera TrashTrackFri, 04 Mar 2011 12:46:40 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/11067-trashtrack
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School of Architecture + Planning IceWallFri, 04 Mar 2011 10:25:08 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/11063-icewall
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architecture 2011 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
Applicant submission video for the 2011 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner, Alice Chen, for her innovative applications of micro-technology to study human health and disease.]]>
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2011 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
$30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Learning and PlayingTue, 22 Feb 2011 10:49:25 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/10739-learning-and-playing
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Learning and Playing
School of Architecture + Planning DNA Fingerprinting Complete - no crime labFri, 11 Feb 2011 13:09:14 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/10599-dna-fingerprinting-complete-no-crime-lab
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DNA Fingerprinting Complete - no crime lab
Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS) The Design and Management of MIT's $100K Competition Using System DynamicsRafael Marañón, Co-founder MIT Social Media Club

This award is given to an SDM student who, in his/her first year in the Program, has demonstrated the highest level of:
- Strategic and sustainable contributions to fellow SDM students and the broader SDM and MIT communities
- Superior skills in leadership, innovation, and systems thinking
- Effective collaboration with SDM staff and fellow students

Azamat Abdymomunov and Rafael Maranon, founders of the MIT Social Media Club ( http://socialmedia.mit.edu/ ).

Dear club members and friends,

Thank you for supporting MIT's newest club -- MIT Social Media Club. We are pleased to initiate our first meeting. This is not yet official meeting of the club since our status will be finalized within the next two weeks by MIT Association of Student Activities (ASA).
During last couple of weeks and especially at the Midway event two days ago, we've received many questions on how to use social media. As the result, we would like to organize brainstorming meeting of friends on how to increase your digital footprint.

This ABC of social media will cover:

1. You (or your startup, your club) how to control your visibility online.

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Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:50:45 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/9614-incose-2010-trip-report-rafael
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INCOSE 2010 Trip Report - Rafael
Rafael Marañón, Co-founder MIT Social Media Club Report Card on President Obama: Climate, Afghanistan, and the Economy About the Speakers:Barry Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. Posen's current research interests include U.S. national security policy, the security policy of the European Union, the organization and employment of military force, great power intervention into civil conflicts, and innovation in the U.S. Army, 1970-1980.
Henry (Jake) Jacoby is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Managment. He also is co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is a world leader in integration of the natural and social sciences and policy analysis in application to the threat of global climate change.
Simon Johnson an expert on the financial sector and economic crises, is Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He served as economic counselor and director of the research department at the IMF from March 2007 to August 2008. He is the co-author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown, a bestselling assessment of the dangers now posed by the US financial sector. ]]>
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Report Card on President Obama: Climate, Afghanistan, and the Economy
MIT Center for International Studies E-Center TV - November 29, 2010Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:10:14 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/9511-e-center-tv-november-29-2010
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E-Center TV - November 29, 2010
Entrepreneurship Center Marc DownieSat, 20 Nov 2010 17:44:28 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/9429-marc-downie
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SMArchS Colloquium FA10 Paul SteenhuisenSat, 20 Nov 2010 14:26:52 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/9428-paul-steenhuisen
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Paul Steenhuisen
SMArchS Colloquium FA10 Marc DownieSat, 20 Nov 2010 14:17:51 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/9427-marc-downie
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SMArchS Colloquium FA10 Sustainability_Simchi-LeviTue, 16 Nov 2010 16:15:48 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/9349-sustainability_simchi-levi
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Simchi-Levi Pneu Scooter v1.-1: Testing @ SUTD
Location: Singapore University of Technology and Design

Throughout Yet One Word the avatar will grow and develop to face increasingly dangerous challenges. This growth comes not through defeating enemies or completing objectives, but through the player answering personal, and occasionally uncomfortable, questions.

This is one of the three game series based on Sophocles' Oedipus trilogy. In these games, gameplay mechanics are used to present themes from these plays as metaphors.

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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Symon Trailer
Symon is a point-and-click adventure game that takes place inside the dreams of a paralyzed patient. Through exploration of the pensive and sentimental dreamscape, he discovers repressed memories and tries to reconcile his troubled past.

The game requires the player to think differently, stepping out of the normal boundaries of conventional adventure game logic. Symon places a heavy emphasis on dream-logic, focusing memory and synesthesia to form the (il)logical connections required to solve the puzzles.

Each dream world is populated with characters and objects that represent the player character's broken past. Each time he returns to the dream state, the puzzles are different, so every playthrough is different. While most traditional adventure game puzzles are hard-coded, Symon aims to bring a fresh experience through the introduction of procedurally generated puzzles and game-spaces.

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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:20:24 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/8349-symon-trailer
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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Poikilia TrailerPoikilia is an adventure/puzzle game that takes players through the twenty-four chambers of the labyrinth, challenging their preconceptions about color theory and demanding more and more complex puzzle-solving skills as they progress. Facing obstacles based on additive and subtractive color theory, players manipulate the color of the flames they bear to guide their avatars to each doorway and, eventually, to safety.

Designed as an educational game for middle-school-age students, Poikilia includes modular narrative components to allow for gameplay with and without story, as part of ongoing research on narrative in educational games.

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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Improviso Trailer
Improviso is a role playing game that focuses on improvisation and role-playing between two players as they interact with each other and the objects in the world to create a personalized experience that is unique to them. Players will be placed on a stage and they will assume the role of actors. A scenario will be given to them at the start of the game and both players will have to work together to act out the scene. Several tools have been provided to aid them in their role-playing: numerous props for them to use, the ability to swap between different characters in-game, and the ability to change the soundtrack to bring out the mood of the game.

Improviso Trailer
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Afterland Trailer
Afterland is a side-scrolling 2D platformer that immerses the player in a world out of time. You play as a reclusive forest-dweller with a penchant for collecting. One day, in his wanderings, he discovers an ancient parchment that he can barely decipher, a remnant of the past. Inspired by his discovery, he seeks to fill his house with the fascinating artifacts that have captured his imagination. Can you help him to find fulfillment and inner peace?

The degree to which evolutionary changes are reversible has long intrigued biologists. A famous example of reversibility in evolution is the emergence and subsequent loss of legs in the lineage that led to snakes. However, studies of enzymatic evolution suggest that it is possible for evolution to become “stuck,” even if the original form of the enzyme is more fit in the new environment. In this talk, I'll describe our experiments probing the reversibility of evolution during bacterial adaptation to different antibiotics.
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Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:35:10 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/7347-pappalardo-fellowships-in-physics-dr-jeff-gore
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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Dr. Jeff Gore
9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium Meet Ann GraybielLearn more about Ann Graybiel>>

ABOUT KAI BIRD:Kai Bird's recent book, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978, was released by Scribner on April 27, 2010. His book is a meld of personal memoir and history, fusing his early life in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Egypt with an account of the American experience in the Middle East and intimate insights into the Arab-Israeli tragedy. He is the co-author with Martin J. Sherwin of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenhelmer (2005), which also on the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Duff Cooper Prize for History in London. He lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, with his wife and son. For his complete bio, visit: www.kaibird.com